Paola Torres Núñez del Prado Singing Tex(t)iles

Paola Torres Núñez del Prado

Lima, Perú - Based in Stockholm

Recipient of the Google Arts + Culture Artists + Machine Intelligence Grant (2019/20)

Her works are in the Public Art Agency, Sweden (2018)

and the Malmo Museum of Art, Sweden (2017)

Winner of the “Local Media: Amazon Ecoregion” contest of Vivo Arte.mov in Brazil (2013)

Her work has been exhibited in various cities in Sweden, in New York, New Mexico, and Massachusetts in the United States, in Bergen and Lofoten in Norway, in Luxembourg, in Nantes, France, in the D.F. Querétaro and Morelia, in Mexico, in London, in the United Kingdom, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in Belem, in Brazil, in Santiago, Chile, and also in multiple cities in Peru.

SOLO ART SHOWS

(Re)Apropiadas - Espacio Socorro Polivalente, Lima, Peru - 2019

Power Geometries - Tegen2 Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden - November 2018

(Re) Sonar - Espacio Socorro Polivalente, Lima, Peru - 2016/2017

Pattern / Antipattern - Candyland, Stockholm, Sweden - 2016

Perennial Patterns, Liquid Matrices - Alliance Francaise, Peru, 2015

Discrete Windows - Qorikancha Palace / Convent of Santo Domingo - Cuzco, Peru, 2015

Desultorium - Mejan Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - 2014

Kanobo: The traces of singing- Belem, Brazil - 2013

Textial - Interactive audiovisual installation, Mejan Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - 2012

Exhibition : Intrusive - National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru - 2008

DUO EXHIBITIONS

Tra (ns) ducciones - Galería Larco 770 (Municipality of Miraflores, with Michael Hurtado), Lima, Peru, 2017

Stultifera Navis: La Nave de los Locos (with Rossana Mercado and as guest artist Verónica Cabanillas)- Pancho Fierro Gallery - Municipality of Lima, Peru— 2007

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

Mantras of Time - Paseo Gallery, Lima, 2019

Migrant Chronicles - Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, 2019

Migration: Spår i in Konstsamling - Malmo Museum of Art, 2019

Migration: Spår i in Konstsamling - Stockholm, Tensta Konsthall, 2019

Lofoten International Art Festival - Biennial in Lofoten, Norway, 2019

New Century / New Materials - Heritage Gallery, MA, United States, 2019

Transpiksel - Artshows related to Piksel Festival/Transpiksel Tour in Lima, Peru, Querétaro, Mexico City, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2019

Artware 7: Biennial of Digital Art - British Cultural Center - Lima, Peru, 2018

Dégénérescence et corruption de l'algorithme - Plateforme Intermédia (La Fabrique), Nantes, France - 2018

Piksel Festival of Electronic Arts and Open Source Software - Exhibition at SKUR14 - Bergen, Norway, November - 2017

Silver Sehnsucht - London, United Kingdom - 2017

Textila Undertexter - Malmo Art Museum, Malmo, Sweden - 2017

Textile Undertexter - Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden - 2016

Ooh Crazy Music Festival - Luxembourg - 2016

Audition: Meetings between Art and Sound in Peru - Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Lima, Peru - 2016

Kulturnatt - Gamla Stan, Stockholm, 2015

Glitcha! - New York United States - 2015

But is it art? - New York United States - 2015

Andini nel Borgo - Candelo, Italy - 2015

Digital Latin America - New Mexico, USA - 2014

Revan - Arresten, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013

Kanobo: Infinite Frameworks - Kungliga Konsthogskolan- Stockholm, Sweden- 2013

24 spaces: a cacophony - part of the Malmo Nordic Art Festival - Malmo - 2013

See / Saw - Norrköping and Stockholm - Sweden 2013

Other Geographies - Alliance Francaise - Lima, Peru - 2012

Medium / Rare - Konstfack Gallery, Stockolm, Sweden- 2009

Automatic / Versatile - Fundación Telefónica Center, Lima, Peru - 2008

National Arts Club Show - New York, USA UU. - 2004

Digital art show - Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA - 2004

PERFORMANCES

Experimental Music - Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru, 2019

AMPLIFY Lima - Centro Fundación Telefónica del Perú, 2019

Sonified Textile Controllers Performance – Lofoten International Art Festival, 2019

Ruidismos V - AMIL Project, 2019

Live presentation with Sound Textiles - Lima, Peru, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Querétaro, and D.F. In Mexico, part of the Transpiksel tour, 2019

Tender Room 0.2 - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima

Tender Room 0.1 in Stá dár med tváttad hals - in maskeradbal! - Bángska vaningen Stockholm, 2018

Homage to Zbigniew Karkowski Fylkingen, Stockholm 2019

Textile Patching (live coding with Pure Data and embroidered fabric controllers) in the International live coding conference - Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico - December 2017

Performance for streaming (Bifronte Rec): Sonified textiles from the Peruvian Amazon - Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico - December 2017

Ephemeral Journals 2.0: Code as a Human Enunciation Method - Live Performance with the "Shipibo Conibo Sonified Textile" - Mexico City, November - 2017

Pixel Festival of Electronic Art and Open Source Technologies - Live performance with the “Shipibo Conibo sonified textile” - Bergen, Norway, November - 2017

Asim'tria Festival - Cusco and Arequipa, Peru, 2017

Keep your head down and walk! (Wearable + performance) - Sonic maps: overlapping cities -Invited by the Hemispheric Institute, University of New York - 2014

Rayku - Modern Bar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden - 2013

Digital Action Painting - Moderna Bar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden - 2012

AMPLIFY Lima - Talk, Fundación Telefónica Center, 2019

Intervention in Central Park: Braille Quipu - Central Park, New York, USA UU. - 2004

TALKS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES

AMPLIFY Lima - Talk , Fundación Telefónica Center, 2019

Textile Sonification Workshops - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Querétaro, and D.F. In Mexico, part of the Transpiksel tour, 2019

Architecture approaches to Shipibo patterns - University of Applied Sciences - September 2018

Art and Technology Conference - Talk (remote) at the Fundación Telefónica Center - August 2018

“A wave in time”: part of the panel discussion at the JEANNETTE EHLERS exhibition “The Invisible Empire: Facing Scandinavian colonial amnesia. ”- Stockholm -2018

The computerized embroidery series “Corrupt structure” appears on SVT (Swedish Television) as part of the historical documentary on Swedish textile - 2018

Sound textile workshop - Mexico City, November - 2017

Sound textile workshop - Piksel Studio - Bergen, Norway - 2017

Alliance Francaise— Cuzco, Peru - 2017

Malmo Art Museum - Malmo, Sweden - 2017

Conference with Michael Hurtado at the University of Sciences of Peru (UPC) - 2017

Interview for “Umbrales”, TV Perú - Televisión Nacional Peruana - 2017

Marabouparken - Stockholm, Sweden - 2016

Guest Lecturer at Sodertorn Hogskola (two lectures in the Undergraduate Programming class and the Interactive media design program) - 2017

El Olivar Cultural Center - Lima, Peru - 2016

Digital Latin American symposium - New Mexico, USA UU. - 2014

Color theory workshop / basic drawing concepts at the Federal University of Goilas - Goiania, Brazil - 2007

CURATORIAL

Glitcha! - New York United States - 2015 www.cargocollective.com/glitcher

Metatribal Mystics - Mejan Gallery - 2013

Dizzy Kinetics tour 2009 -Marek Choloniewsk1 and Lukasz Szalankiewicz (PL) Lima, Cusco, Arequipa Peru

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Google Arts + Culture Artists + Machine Intelligence Grant (2019/20)

Konstnarsnamnden-— Grant for travel to Norway and Peru - 2019

Konstnarsnamnden-— Grant for travel to Chile and Peru - 2019

Konstnarsnamnden-— Grant for travel to Mexico D.F .. Mexico - 2017

Konstnarsnamnden-— Grant for travel to London, United Kingdom. - 2017

Vivo arte.mov Midias Locativas (First Prize) - International Mobile Arts Contest of Panama, Belem, Brazil - 2013

PUBLICATIONS

Interview for the magazine of Contemporary Art C & Latin America - http://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/paola-torres-nunez/, 2019

Grabar y Coagular (Album): A history of audio pieces by Peruvian artists (1972-2018), Peru, 2019

Feminoise III (Album), Argentina, 2019

The pattern transducer machine: of symmetries, tessellations and cultural transformations - in "Digital media, art and cultural identity", edited by Umberto Roncoroni, 2018 - http: // digitalartperu. org / public / MDAIC.pdf

The Augmented Soma Costume: Wearables for Enhanced Somatic Experiences - Teacher Thesis, Sodertorn Hogskola, 2017

Review of Mark Nunes ERROR: Glitch, Noise and Jam in the New Media Cultures publication for peer-reviewed Kaypunku Art Magazine, 2016 ISSN 2410-1923

FAILED ORIGIN: GLITCH ART IN PERU number 0.28, Glitchet Magazine, 2015

Apophenial Codex, Master's Thesis, Royal Institute of Art, 2014, Https://www.academia.edu/11921131/Apophenial Codex

EDUCATION

M. Sc. In Interactive Media Design - Sodertorn Hogskola - 2018

Master in Fine Arts - Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm - 2014

M.A. in Theoretical Studies in Psychoanalysis - (unfinished) - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - 2006

Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art - Hunter College - City University of New York, USA - 2005

Undergraduate Program in Painting (unfinished) - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - 1998-2002

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